Yesterday I went to the surf club opening and saw the gorgeous Viv. Who is an amazing woman: she runs her own business, surfs and was patrol leader of surf lifesaving, and is gorgeous and fun. Sounds like you'd hate her on paper (or screen) but you can't and shouldn't because she is awesome. Anyway she said she hadn't read a blog posting in ages so I actually got off my ass and did one. Specially. I had this in my head to do, but was procrastinating, and have lost the photo I took of the meal. I will find it. Instead I put that photo up which I will explain soon. I have a short story to write so that is top of my procrastination list now. God every paragraph of story writing is like being on the rack and having all my joints slowly dislocated. And each paragraph comes with the anxiety that it is shit. I've only written one fiction story and it won a prize, and I was real whakamā about that one too.
This is a recipe for a dish I was really craving - who knows why. My liver is a bit screwed up again so maybe it is liver repair. It probably isn't. Last time Tequila seemed to help. This time I am not drinking for the whole of Lent which given I am a lapsed Catholic will surely reserve me a spot in the heaven that isn't even there. Ohh remember that Belinda Carlise song "Heaven is a place on Earth". I never really liked that song. Anyway I digress. I had a craving for rice and beans which is a good meal because it gives you a full compliment of essential amino acids. Which is stuff you need to live. Rice and beans is a staple in lots of countries and when you make it you feel all South American and sexy like the picture above. Which is pretty much an exact representation of what I looked like when I was cooking. I am also having a Narcos binge so this meal went perfectly with that. Say "hijo de puta" heaps while cooking. Spanish is so sexy. This meal is good because (a) you can put it all in the rice cooker, and (b) It uses up all the once were vegetables in your fridge. And it uses Capsicums which are real cheap at the moment (make Pepperanata it's yum). You need:
This was so good the 15-year old boy went back for more. Despite it being vegetarian. I made it again, and had it with spicy chicken thighs. God knows why I bought chicken thighs. They are the shittest cut of chicken ever. The bone-in ones with skin like your Mum used to make Maggi Apricot chicken with and the skins were all gross and it made you feel sick (or was that just me). I found them in the bottom of the freezer and they'd been in there forever and cost like 3 bucks at Pac'n'save because they are so shit. I must have been on a save money binge at that point. Anyway I'll buy more and put a recipe up because they weren't all that bad. I shared that meal with my friend Simone (sorry that you know the chicken thigh backstory now but they tasted OK because they weren't in slimy apricot sauce).
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